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This is not an attempt at "the answer"...it's a casual observation of buying habits at trainshows. I generally have a table or two at 4 or 5 trainshows a year, selling surplus equipment or items I have bought from others who left the hobby. At all trainshows, there seems to be an "age" demarcation when (for instance), buildings are being sold. Invariably, "old-timers" in the hobby, folks in their 50's and up, will buy new kits, still in the box. Younger modellers, in their 20's through to their 40's, seem mostly to buy pre-assembled buildings...in fact, the best way I can ensure rapid sales of a bunch of buildings, at the price I'd like, is to assemble them on foamcore bases, weather them, and add grouncover, details, and people, to make a "mini-scene" out of each one....it really has become an "instant gratification" hobby for a large majority of this younger crowd. Similarly, it is WAY easier to sell preassembled cars & locomotives than kits...but most of the above-mentioned "old-timers" still want kits. It's not so much WHY there are time & effort constraints...there just ARE. regards; Mike
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